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Virtually every element in Anchorage Gardens — from the metal arbours and stunning sculptures, to the smaller garden art, to the composition of the pathways — is fraught with deeper meaning. This August, you are invited to tour this wonderful gardenscape and partake in “A Journey of Life.”
BOISSEVAIN — Don and Betty Engbrecht have been touring interested gardeners, friends and family through their Anchorage Gardens property for the past 15 years.
Virtually every element in Anchorage Gardens — from the metal arbours and stunning sculptures, to the smaller garden art, to the composition of the pathways — is fraught with deeper meaning. This August, you are invited to tour this wonderful gardenscape and partake in “A Journey of Life.” (SUBMITTED)
The inception of the gardens, located on Highway 3 just west of the junction with Highway 10, came about rather innocently. It was about developing a place of beauty in the most inexpensive way as possible.
This was followed rather quickly with the concept of "A Journey of Life" — a new passion to develop a walk through the gardens with a deeper meaning.
Each of the 24 sites that are visited during the tours, which begin Aug. 2, has a name; in fact, each site has two names.
For example, the "Jasmine Garden" is also the "Place of Compassion"; the "Perennial Garden" is the "Place of Affirmation." The place names, in some way, embody virtues of life that when practised or experienced, make life more fulfilling.
Two principles have faithfully been followed since the inception of the gardens: 1.) that we use only recycled material, and 2.) that each site contain or display an agricultural accent.
Each year the Engbrechts have attempted to create something new for the gardens and they claim to have succeeded in this promise to their guests. That is again true for this year
The 2.5-acre country garden lends itself well to the building of larger structures, paths and garden art.
Don has always enjoyed putting his welding skills to the test by creating such things as garden arbours from oil pipe stem and one inch wire rope cable, as well as sculptures made from scrap metal.
Five metal arbours were created between 2002 and 2008.
» See ‘Four Seasons’ — Page 2
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition July 26, 2012
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BOISSEVAIN — Don and Betty Engbrecht have been touring interested gardeners, friends and family through their Anchorage Gardens property for the past 15 years.
The inception of the gardens, located on Highway 3 just west of the junction with Highway 10, came about rather innocently. It was about developing a place of beauty in the most inexpensive way as possible.
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BOISSEVAIN — Don and Betty Engbrecht have been touring interested gardeners, friends and family through their Anchorage Gardens property for the past 15 years.
The inception of the gardens, located on Highway 3 just west of the junction with Highway 10, came about rather innocently. It was about developing a place of beauty in the most inexpensive way as possible.
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